.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 282 308 127
Rank change year-on-year +26 -181 +33
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 524 411 1,877
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.65% 1.05% 2.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.50% 5.26% 11.05%
Number of salaries quoted 493 353 1,778
10th Percentile £43,750 £40,124 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,339 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% +6.68% -11.54%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,064 7,816 16,994
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.02% 19.92% 20.19%
Number of salaries quoted 6,120 5,709 14,144
10th Percentile £40,000 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £46,016
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,268 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% +10.45% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,100 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.66% +10.17% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 11 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -27 133 £55,000 -8.33% 48
South East +18 99 £57,500 +9.52% 48
Midlands -2 82 £60,000 +14.29% 28
London -69 81 £85,000 +6.25% 58
North West -1 72 £55,000 -8.33% 25
East of England +29 65 £87,500 +62.79% 26
South West -18 57 £53,750 -20.37% 15
East Midlands +13 55 £62,500 +19.05% 12
North East -20 39 £65,000 +44.44% 11
West Midlands -31 27 £60,000 +1.69% 16
Yorkshire -61 22 £55,000 -8.33% 13
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (4.01%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.53%) IIS
3 3 (0.57%) CMS
4 1 (0.19%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Magento
2 1 (0.19%) ION Anvil
2 1 (0.19%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 355 (67.75%) Azure
2 107 (20.42%) Azure DevOps
3 93 (17.75%) AWS
4 63 (12.02%) GitHub
5 48 (9.16%) SaaS
6 45 (8.59%) Azure Logic Apps
6 45 (8.59%) Serverless
7 44 (8.40%) Azure AI
8 41 (7.82%) GitHub Copilot
9 40 (7.63%) Power Platform
10 25 (4.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 23 (4.39%) Power Automate
11 23 (4.39%) PowerApps
12 22 (4.20%) Azure Data Factory
13 21 (4.01%) Azure Functions
13 21 (4.01%) Azure Monitor
13 21 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
14 19 (3.63%) Adobe Creative Cloud
14 19 (3.63%) GitHub Actions
14 19 (3.63%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 16 (3.05%) Internet
2 3 (0.57%) Hyperconnected
3 2 (0.38%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.19%) AMQP
4 1 (0.19%) Firewall
4 1 (0.19%) Modbus
4 1 (0.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (31.49%) Azure SQL Database
2 153 (29.20%) SQL Server
3 116 (22.14%) MongoDB
4 42 (8.02%) Elasticsearch
5 35 (6.68%) Power BI
6 27 (5.15%) NoSQL
7 20 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (2.67%) MySQL
9 10 (1.91%) DynamoDB
10 8 (1.53%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.34%) Redis
12 4 (0.76%) NonStop SQL
13 3 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.57%) GIS
14 2 (0.38%) MariaDB
15 1 (0.19%) Amazon Athena
15 1 (0.19%) Data Lake
15 1 (0.19%) Data Warehouse
15 1 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
15 1 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 47 (8.97%) Git
2 7 (1.34%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (0.95%) JIRA
5 4 (0.76%) GitLab
5 4 (0.76%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.57%) Vite
7 2 (0.38%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.38%) MSTest
7 2 (0.38%) NUnit
7 2 (0.38%) webpack
8 1 (0.19%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.19%) Selenium
8 1 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 77 (14.69%) Finance
2 51 (9.73%) Social Skills
3 26 (4.96%) Games
4 16 (3.05%) Banking
5 15 (2.86%) Retail
6 14 (2.67%) Advertising
7 10 (1.91%) Law
8 9 (1.72%) Automotive
8 9 (1.72%) Front Office
8 9 (1.72%) Marketing
9 8 (1.53%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (1.15%) Public Sector
11 5 (0.95%) Legal
12 4 (0.76%) Aerospace
12 4 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.57%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.57%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.57%) Music Industry
14 2 (0.38%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.38%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 404 (77.10%) Developer
2 238 (45.42%) .NET Developer
3 127 (24.24%) Senior
4 108 (20.61%) Software Developer
5 79 (15.08%) Senior Developer
6 75 (14.31%) C# Developer
7 54 (10.31%) Lead
8 53 (10.11%) C# .NET Developer
9 49 (9.35%) Full-Stack Developer
10 47 (8.97%) Software Engineer
11 30 (5.73%) Lead Developer
12 29 (5.53%) Senior Software Developer
12 29 (5.53%) Senior Software Engineer
13 26 (4.96%) .NET Software Developer
14 23 (4.39%) .NET Software Engineer
14 23 (4.39%) Applications Developer
15 21 (4.01%) Azure Engineer
16 20 (3.82%) Azure Developer
16 20 (3.82%) Senior .NET Developer
16 20 (3.82%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 524 (100.00%) .NET
2 236 (45.04%) ASP.NET
3 159 (30.34%) ASP.NET Core
4 115 (21.95%) React
5 103 (19.66%) HTML
6 102 (19.47%) CSS
7 97 (18.51%) Entity Framework
8 94 (17.94%) .NET Framework
9 92 (17.56%) RESTful
10 89 (16.98%) Blazor
11 77 (14.69%) Vue
12 74 (14.12%) AngularJS
13 60 (11.45%) ASP.NET Web API
13 60 (11.45%) Node.js
14 44 (8.40%) ML.NET
15 37 (7.06%) LINQ
16 34 (6.49%) REST
17 30 (5.73%) JSON
18 21 (4.01%) Microsoft Graph
19 20 (3.82%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 39 (7.44%) Greenfield Project
2 31 (5.92%) Cloud Native
3 19 (3.63%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (3.24%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 12 (2.29%) Sports Betting
6 11 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.10%) Hedge funds
6 11 (2.10%) Product Ownership
7 9 (1.72%) Digital TV
8 8 (1.53%) Algorithms
8 8 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (1.34%) iPhone
9 7 (1.34%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.34%) Social Network
10 6 (1.15%) 3D Graphics
10 6 (1.15%) Low-Code
11 4 (0.76%) BBC
11 4 (0.76%) Social Media
12 3 (0.57%) Client/Server
12 3 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 13 (2.48%) VMS
2 7 (1.34%) Android
2 7 (1.34%) Windows
3 5 (0.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (46.56%) Full-Stack Development
2 198 (37.79%) Agile
3 153 (29.20%) CI/CD
4 138 (26.34%) DevOps
5 106 (20.23%) Software Engineering
6 97 (18.51%) Microservices
7 64 (12.21%) Machine Learning
8 61 (11.64%) AI
9 55 (10.50%) Containerisation
10 54 (10.31%) Multithreading
11 53 (10.11%) MVC
12 51 (9.73%) Continuous Improvement
12 51 (9.73%) SDLC
13 50 (9.54%) OO
14 41 (7.82%) Analytics
15 40 (7.63%) User Experience
16 39 (7.44%) Business Intelligence
17 37 (7.06%) Collaborative Culture
18 36 (6.87%) Clean Code
18 36 (6.87%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 474 (90.46%) C#
2 284 (54.20%) SQL
3 149 (28.44%) JavaScript
4 105 (20.04%) TypeScript
5 39 (7.44%) PowerShell
6 18 (3.44%) Python
7 12 (2.29%) Kusto Query Language
7 12 (2.29%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.15%) Bash
9 4 (0.76%) Bicep
9 4 (0.76%) Java
10 3 (0.57%) PHP
11 2 (0.38%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.19%) C++
12 1 (0.19%) F#
Qualifications
1 34 (6.49%) Degree
2 15 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (1.72%) AWS Certification
4 8 (1.53%) AWS Certified Developer
5 7 (1.34%) Security Cleared
6 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (0.76%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.38%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.38%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.19%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.05%) QA
2 6 (1.15%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.38%) GDPR
3 2 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.38%) ITGC
3 2 (0.38%) SLA
4 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 113 (21.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 98 (18.70%) Kubernetes
2 28 (5.34%) Terraform
3 2 (0.38%) Ansible
Vendors
1 238 (45.42%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.63%) Adobe
3 17 (3.24%) Google
4 14 (2.67%) Facebook
5 6 (1.15%) YouTube
6 5 (0.95%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (0.76%) Apple
7 4 (0.76%) Sony
7 4 (0.76%) Workday
7 4 (0.76%) Yahoo!
8 2 (0.38%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.38%) Foundry
8 2 (0.38%) Oracle
8 2 (0.38%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.38%) Splunk
9 1 (0.19%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.19%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.19%) Reuters
9 1 (0.19%) Sitecore
9 1 (0.19%) WooCommerce